Word: scours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thrust that will begin next month, when the Governor is scheduled to wrap up the legislative session in Austin and make his first campaign trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Frustrated by Bush's dominance of the race, some rival campaigns have dispatched operatives to Texas to scour newspaper clippings and state budget reports, pick over old speeches and offhand remarks, quiz Bush enemies and even some old friends, all in search of information they can use to diminish Bush's aura of invincibility. The goal: to use Bush's record and his status as the chosen candidate...
...head in behind a SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) package. These Navy EA-6B radar-jamming planes and Air Force radar-killing F-16CJs scour the skies for electronic clues betraying a SAM radar. As you plunge deeper over enemy territory between 15,000 and 25,000 ft., there's an aerial ballet taking place far above: a layer of F-15Cs ensuring that no Serbian pilot gets close enough to take a shot...
HOLLAND --Relaxed privacy laws make this the easiest of all European countries to scour for details. Visit www.cbg.nl...
SEARCH FOR SONGS ONLINE If you've heard of CD-quality music on the Web but aren't sure where to find it, a new search feature on Lycos lycos.com can get you started. Simply enter the name of a song or music group, then let the search engine scour some 1,000 sites with more than half a million songs stored in the MP3 format. One warning: some songs available online are pirated, and downloading them is illegal...
...Florida passed a law penalizing minors under 18 caught buying, smoking or possessing tobacco. Funded by money from an earlier $11.3 billion state settlement with the tobacco industry, special police patrols now scour public parks, malls and other places where teens light up. A first offense carries a fine of $53 or eight hours of community service. Kids caught smoking a third time automatically lose their driver's license. Some 800 young smokers have been ticketed...